I bought a copy of Star Office 5.1 complete with manual about 2 months ago
and use it (the Windows version)as my Office program at work. All I have had
much to do with is the word processor though. It works well, a little
different than Office 97 but most files saved in 97 format convert over
fine. Some document formatting doesn't convert over verywell though. Lines,
borders and such. It's slow but so is 97. 
Sorry I can't say much about the spreadsheet program. I've only put together
a couple of very simple spreadsheets with it.

-----Original Message-----
From: mlee@microlink.net [mailto:mlee@microlink.net]
Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 8:48 PM
To: kclug@kclug.org
Subject: kclug - staroffice

i probably missed it the first time around and it's probably
old news, but sun acquired staroffice and made binaries of the
suite available for free download.  check 

http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/
or
http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/faq.html

for more info.  has anybody downloaded it and tried it yet?
i'm particulary interested in the spreadsheet application,
as i have yet to find anything to replace excel (not saying
nothing's out there, just that i haven't found anything).

matt